On Tue, 6 May 2008, franconi wrote: ... >> 1. I've tried simpdftexnodel.sh from >> <http://phaseportrait.blogspot.com/2007/07/skim-automatic-refreshes-an...> >> But it goes into a loop, both from Emacs (after I have created an AUCTeX >> command for it) and in Terminal. The later tells that the problem is not >> from Emacs' settings. > > I am regularly using a variant of simpdftexnodel and I have no > problems at all. Which kind of "loop" are you talking about?
I tried both simpdftexnodel.sh latex --maxpfb file.tex and simpdftexnodel.sh file.tex from Emacs (after I have created an AUCTeX command) and in Terminal. By leaving the loop for awhile on its own, in Terminal, I see the errors copied below, after a long repetitions of the first two lines: It seems that dvips can't be used by simpdftexnodel.sh. But otherwise, I can run "simpdftex latex --maxpfb file.tex", "dvips file.dvi". ... ### /Users/rosi/bin/simpdftexnodel.sh latex ### This is /Users/rosi/bin/simpdftexnodel.sh, Version 20070712 /Users/rosi/bin/simpdftexnodel.sh: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable /Users/rosi/bin/simpdftexnodel.sh: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable /Users/rosi/bin/simpdftexnodel.sh: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable ### Skipping [dvi->pdf only] ### /Users/rosi/bin/dvips -R -Poutline -o /tmp/altpdf.15953-1209989766/.ps latex /Users/rosi/bin/simpdftexnodel.sh: line 473: /Users/rosi/bin/dvips: No such file or directory ### FAILED to generate /tmp/altpdf.15953-1209989766/.ps () ### WARNING: TeX returned non zero exit status ### /Users/rosi/bin/dvips -R -Poutline -o /tmp/altpdfsimpdftexnodel.sh.15935-1209989766/latex.ps latex.dvi /Users/rosi/bin/simpdftexnodel.sh: line 473: /Users/rosi/bin/dvips: No such file or directory ### FAILED to generate /tmp/altpdfsimpdftexnodel.sh.15935-1209989766/latex.ps () ### WARNING: TeX returned non zero exit status ...: Roussanka --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Carbon Emacs User Group http://groups.google.com/group/carbon-emacs?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---